KJV dictionary & concordance
Patient endurance, restraint, or forbearance; slowness to anger.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 34:6
Complete exact-word concordance
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, mercifull and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in goodnesse and trueth,
The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
The LORD is long suffering, and of great mercie, forgiuing iniquitie and transgression, and by no meanes clearing the guiltie, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the chldren, vnto the third and fourth generation.
1611 marginal noteExod. 34.6. psal. 103.8.
1611 marginal noteExod. 20.5. and 34.7.
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
But thou, O LORD, art a God full of compassion, and gracious: long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and trueth.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 34.6. num. 14.18. psal. 103.8. and 139.4. and 145.8.
¶ O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
¶ O LORD, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and reuenge me of my persecutors, take mee not away in thy long suffering: know that for thy sake I haue suffered rebuke.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodnesse, and forbearance, and long suffering, not knowing that the goodnes of God leadeth thee to repentance?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, & to make his power knowen, indured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
1611 marginal noteOr, made vp.
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By purenesse, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindnesse, by the holy Ghost, by loue vnfained,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
But the fruit of the spirit is loue, ioy, peace, long suffering, gentlenesse, goodnesse, faith,
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
With all lowlinesse and meekenesse, with long suffering, forbearing one another in loue.
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, vnto all patience and long suffering with ioyfulnesse:
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Historical English dictionary sources
Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.
